NEW YORK -- As the Yankees and Mets meet for another round of the Subway Series -- this time in Queens -- the dynamic between New York City's two franchises has reached a point that those who have lived the rivalry were skeptical they'd ever see.
"The Mets have kind of turned the corner from being that little cousin or little brother or sister to the Yankees," said Buck Showalter, whose nearly half-century in professional baseball was bookended by two decades in the Yankees organization and two seasons with the Mets as their manager.